The Joy Luck Review
The book opens with the story of a Chinese woman who bought a swan because she believed it was born a duck then stretched its neck to become more. The woman wished to do the same. To sail to America and make a better life for her and her children than she could have ever hoped for in China. When she arrived in America, however, they took her swan away amd she was left with nothing but a feather, and a few broken dreams.
Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club is the story of four women and their daughters. In a series of fladhbacks we see how each woman came to America, fleeing their Chinease past of opression and fear to build a better life for their children. Their strories are of war and ancestral pride, mariage and never losing hope. Theirs is the story of the women of China and how they rose above their place in the world, teaching their daughters to do likewise.

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